Posts by chris
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Hard News: Friday Music: This stuff works, in reply to Russell Brown,
You basically get onto the Discovery button loop by impressing the people fielding new tracks as they come in. Which is fair enough -- a degree of curation is useful on these sites.
So more of a "curated music website" than a "music discovery website"?
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
"I can see in calculus"
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frix problem/blighter future
DexterX, Mr. Yunioshi your dialect specialist needs to speak with you urgently.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
All argument is of some use.
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Kimberley Verburg,
It’s been preying on my mind a bit. Also, the Netherlands is so much richer that I feel like it doesn’t need my contribution as much.
The word contribute is fairly high frequency on this thread.
For the record I’d be interested to know whether returning home, paying taxes, paying off accrued interest on loans, paying off the late payment fees, paying off the late payment interest, paying off the loans themselves, renewing a passport, buying a drivers license, buying a firearms license, holding down a job, making a go of that, pumping money into the economy, recycling, voting, attending council funded firework displays and musical extravaganza, watching more of New Zealand on Air, voting for *winners* in New Zealand on Air funded shows, using public transport wherever possible, keeping healthy and generally just being a good enough person qualifies as a contribution or is it merely subsistence?
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
then surely Wellington’s local rag could’ve had the decency to report a bit more on her trip, perhaps even send somebody along with the delegation to see what she got up to.
Certainly following the Pansy Wong affair it would seem to be the very least they could do to protect New Zealand interests.
"cooperation in such fields as the finance trade, environmental protection, film and TV culture and creative industries, and develop together"
Predictably vaguely tailored for the local reader(s)? begging the question as to the expected benefits of this (I assume) ratepayer funded junket for Wellingtonians. I understand exactly where you're coming from Chris and agree that more needs to be done rather than just seen to be done.
Rich of Observationz, your admission that it’s way easier to start with the low hanging fruit of Australia, North America and Europe (and in particular North America and Europe) somewhat reinforces Chris's prognosis that NZ’s business leaders grossly undervalue linguistic and cultural skills and knowledge - In China the fruit is hanging so low you could call it Han.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Kumara Republic,
That's Awce!
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Every country has diaspora, and I think we stand out simply because we have a smaller population
The OECD says New Zealand is the developed country with the highest proportion of its educated population living overseas.
Rated 24th out of 25 countries in terms of Children’s Health and safety
sorry for the stat tsunami, but economics and employment is but one small fish, and it would seem that there are numerous starting points in terms of what can be done. -
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
b) it puts a lot of pressure on family relationships by introducing a romantic/sexual component that isn't usually there.
Perhaps this conflation of romantic and sexual is in part a conditioned response to incest's taboo status. A romantic expectation seems to put a lot of pressure on the sexual component and vice versa.
